URGENT EDIT: https://voat.co/v/SearchVoat/4170476

The above link tells you how to identify yourself moving forward should you choose to do so. At the new places, me knowing who you are here will help facilitate the process of verifying that you're legitimate and not some SBBH pedo pretending to be one of us just to troll/infiltrate/etc.

I'm sure we can all agree that the Voat shutdown sucks. I've been to a few other sites now and then, and always came back here; I'm sure I'm not the only one with a similar story. The UI is familiar and easy on the eyes, and the downtime was never really awful to the point of putting me off of coming back here.

I want to thank @puttitout for his work in keeping this site up. I don't know what hell he's gone through with all of this, but I absolutely cannot thank him enough. If you get the urge to do so, let him know how much this place meant to you - your words will be saved at searchvoat.co as a memorial to him and his work on this site. I plan to do so, myself.

Now to the meat of the post:

The following links are all valid OPTIONS for our forum needs. Whatever the case, BOOKMARK them, save them to a text file, go to them so you have them in your browser history, or do whatever you need to do in order to be able to check them quickly should one or more OTHER sites go down at a time.

Another thing to remember is this: The CONTENT and the speed at which your feed updates will probably be similar to what it is here because the same people posting are likely to move with us; so if your gripe with previous forays into other sites is how slow the feed is, understand WE ARE THE FEED. (Unintentional pizzagate double-entendre)

Before you join any site below, make sure you have a throwaway email. I recommend mail.protonmail.com - not because of the security, but because it's fast and easy and at this point we either win and netsec (almost) doesn't matter, or we lose and netsec doesn't matter at all, but that's just me.(I still don't use my real name on any of them, of course) If y'all have recommendations for better/easier throwaway emails, let me know.

https://poal.co/s/QStorm/new has long been our backup in case Voat suddenly went down. The site is stable, but there are reports that the admins are more hands-on and quick with admin-actions that some here very much dislike. The site is not as easy on the eyes, but if you can get used to it, the functionality is there to do more than you could here on Voat.

https://ruqqus.com/+QStorm is a more recent backup, made a month ago. The site isn't too awful on the eyes, and seems very responsive. I'm still not super familiar with the layout; very very different in some aspects. Aggravatingly so, but only different and something to get used to, not worse.

The two above are directly under my username on each site. The following I have zero control over currently:

https://greatawakening.win/p/11R4zPum7N/refugees-incoming/ was recommended by a few users in the previous sticky. They seem active. Unknown if there's a night mode.

https://mewe.com/group/5ec9fdcef11434423b841031 was recommended by a user as well. I'm not 100% sure that's the right Qanon group there, but there does seem to be more than one. (One with some very strict rules: ZERO CUSSING?! Not for me.)

https://gab.com/groups/1046 This gab group seems to have the numbers, and recently-banned CJTRUTH is there: https://gab.com/truthandlife

But what I'm really more excited about is this:

https://disc ord.gg/DSDS7D96gH (fix the link then pop into your browser. the app/program is easy to use, too)

I think this should be our overall base of operations for the moment. There's a lot of things to consider for a FORUM move that is less necessary with a service like Discord.

Real-time text chat with everyone. Can post links and even voice chat if you're of the mind. Easy to be able to migrate to and from. Can real-time message and help others get set up and settled in to the sites above that you are already familiar with.

I am "Crensch" on Poal, Ruqqus, Discord, and Mewe. I am "Rytzch" on Gab. The places I own will be run similar to how they are run here.